The next day was the 23rd. When Xiao Yifei woke up, he felt soreness in his waist and back. He stayed in bed and refused to get up.

Yesterday, Xiao Yifei was bored and actually went to experience installing drip irrigation pipes. The work was very unfunctory. He dug the trenches and buried the branch pipes, dragging the drip irrigation pipes into the ground, especially the installation of drip irrigation pipes and drip heads. The height was too low, so he had to kneel on the ground and bent over, so that the height was suitable. He also went to experience a pile driving, and he didn't think the machine was noisy with his earplugs, but when he stood on a stool and held the pile driver, the machine shook Xiao Yifei so much that everything was ghostly. He only punched two piles. His head was almost shaking, and he hurriedly returned the machine to "Li Kui" and "Lu Zhishen" and escaped.

Hei Nose protested the most serious protest against Xiao Yifei's behavior of staying in bed and not making breakfast for him. He first barked twice on the ground, but ineffectively, he bit the corner of the quilt and dragged it backwards, trying to tear off the quilt.

"Black nose, let me lie down for a while."

The black nose let go and looked at Xiao Yifei with his head tilted. He thought Xiao Yifei would get up immediately, but after waiting for a while, there was still no movement, so he started to drag the horn of the quilt again. Unfortunately, his strength was not as great as Xiao Yifei, so Xiao Yifei pressed the quilt and it couldn't drag it.

But the black nose had a trick, so it jumped onto the bed and began to lick Xiao Yifei's face.

"Ah, Black Nose, you bastard."

The black-nosed saliva attack took effect, and Xiao Yifei hurriedly got up and pushed it out of the bed.

While moving the muscles all over his body and washing, his black nose squatted at the door and looked at him with a gaze.

After breakfast, Xiao Yifei planned to set off to pick him up. However, before leaving, he had to go to the horse farm to do something.

Xiao Yifei opened Lincoln's co-pilot door.

"Black nose, go up."

Hei Nose jumped into the car very consciously and squatted in the passenger seat. As long as he added a seat belt, he would be a model passenger. Xiao Yifei started the car and drove towards the vineyard in a flash.

Just as he drove to the winery, Greg waved to him through Yuhu:

"Xiao, the tractor that our winery participated in the tractor parade asked David to take someone to inspect the tractor. Right?"

Xiao Yifei didn't hear clearly what he was doing, he only heard him say something about tractors and something.

Tractor? Are the tractors in our winery all used in vineyards? There is a minor problem with the tractor. David and others have always been torn to the repair station when there is a big problem. So he asked at the top of his voice:

"How was it like before?"

"In the past, Bo or Jimmy took David and others to overhaul."

"Okay, let David lead people."

When they arrived at the horse farm, Xiao Yifei gathered everyone in the horse farm. There were only 6 employees in the huge horse farm:

"Hello everyone, I am the new owner of the horse farm, Xiao."

"First of all, I'm going to say something that will reassure you. Although I don't know how to run the horse farm, I decided to keep this horse farm for the time being and we will continue our previous work. I've read the financial statements of the horse farm. Even at the current rate of loss, I'm confident that I can persist for a few years. Therefore, everyone can continue to work with peace of mind."

Xiao Yifei will maintain the status quo of the horse farm. The news that everyone will continue to work first told the horse farm staff, which made them feel relieved for the time being.

"The second thing is that at the entrance of the horse farm, about one or two hundred square meters need to be drawn to give the winery and future resorts as parking lots."

"The third thing. The people from the Roger family have evacuated. I need a manager here. I am not very familiar with you. I don't know who has the ability. But it doesn't matter. You must be familiar with each other, so I'll send you a note and write the most suitable person among you."

Finally, an old man in his 50s named Lawrence was elected as the horse farm manager.

"I'll say one thing at the end of the year. I just took over the horse farm. But I'll give you a year-end bonus as you would on the winery. It's a hard work for a year to reward everyone. The money is not much, it's probably everyone's salary for a month. I hope everyone won't think it's too little."

This decision won everyone's applause.

Since Napa Valley is called a valley, it must be mountains on both sides. Overall, they belong to the coastal mountains. The coastal mountains extend from 300 kilometers north of San Francisco to near Los Angeles. It is the longest mountain range in California except the Sierra Nevada.

The continuous mountains between the Napa Valley and the Central Valley are Mount Howell and Bacca Mountains. Expressway No. 128 passes through this mountain range, directly from St. Helen to Daviston to Sacramento. As soon as St. Helen gets on the highway, he starts climbing the hill. Xiao Yifei stepped on the accelerator lightly, and the green trees on both sides flew over. After passing through Mount Howell, Xiao Yifei suddenly discovered a large lake. After passing the lake, he discovered that there was a large area of ​​vineyards here. After winding through the Bacca Mountains, the endless plains came into view, and then he came to the Central Valley.

California is one of the most important states in the United States. In addition to economic, online, entertainment and sports, the same is true in agriculture. California's almonds, dates, table grapes, raisins, walnuts, pistachios, dried plums, kiwis, olives, garlic, artichokes, pomegranates, etc. account for more than 95% of the output in the United States. California produces nearly half of the fruit, dried fruits and vegetables in the United States. In the agricultural region of California, the Central Valley occupies the most important position and is known as the "Fruit and Vegetable Basket of the United States."

He set out in advance today to examine what these farmers in the Central Valley are planting and what their profits are, and see if he has any chance to intervene.

As soon as we arrived at the Central Valley, there were orchards on both sides of the road. Because the leaves had fallen out in winter, Xiao Yifei had to slow down and occasionally parked to the ground to carefully distinguish the tree species. He found that the main planting of almonds, walnuts, and vineyards were planted here, and these orchards had drip irrigation equipment.

Although he knew what others planted, Xiao Yifei didn't know which fruit had the highest profit. He just walked all the way and followed GPS's instructions and after leaving Winters (rs), he got off the highway and prepared to pass Davis directly to the capital.

When he arrived at Davis, Xiao Yifei suddenly remembered that Davis had a famous university, which increased the Davis branch. The school had a strong major in agriculture. Many wineries in Napa and winemakers and vineyard managers graduated here. At that time, he checked Monterrena Winery and asked professors from this school to join the inspection team. Many professors here deal with agriculture all day long, and they must know which type of planting industry is more profitable.

So he took out his cell phone and called Professor Walker. He was very lucky. Although Davis School was on winter vacation, Professor Walker was still in school and would not go home tomorrow. So he quickly contacted Professor Walker and waited for him in a coffee shop on campus.

Xiao Yifei and Professor Walker chatted for a few words, thanked him for his help to the winery, gave him a small gift, and brought the two closer together. I felt that the temperature was almost the same, Xiao Yifei asked his own question:

"Professor Walker, do you know which fruit tree is the most profitable?"

"Xiao, are you talking about a single fruit tree or a unit area?"

"Of course it's unit area."

"I can't say this. Each plot has its own unique nutritional structure, which means there are the most suitable varieties for planting. If you can't say that grapes are the most profitable, just use the wasteland that can only be planted forage to grow grapes."

Xiao Yifei can only say clearly:

"It's not like that. I want to buy an orchard, but I don't know that the kind of fruit tree has the highest profit, so I'll ask you."

"Oh, this is the one in our school who studies the costs and profits of various fruit trees. You can find it by looking for it yourself."

"Can you tell me where to go?"

"It seems to be a research on agriculture and resource economics. You can go to their website and check it out, it should be all on it."

After chatting for a few more words, Professor Walker said goodbye and left. Xiao Yifei borrowed the Internet from the cafe and went to the website that Professor Walker said, and found that there were indeed research documents that Walker said.

On the website of the Davis School Cost Research Center, experts analyzed the cost and benefits of many medium crops. These varieties include blueberries, lettuce, tomatoes, nectarines, walnuts, almonds, olives, sorghum, sultan grass and other fruits, vegetables, cattle and sheep grass. In addition, experts also divided California into several regions and analyzed the most suitable crops in their respective regions.

Among them, the Central Valley, an agricultural area of ​​60 to 100 kilometers wide and more than 700 kilometers long, is divided into three parts according to their climate and geographical location, from north to south, namely the Sacramento Valley, the North San Joaquin Valley, and the South San Joaquin Valley. Xiao Yifei is not planning to run too far now, he is looking at the fruit tree planting industry in the Sacramento Valley area.

As a result, he found that according to the information of these professors, it seems that it is good to grow walnuts here, with the highest profit per acre of 10,000 yuan. Of course, ordinary growers may not make that much, but even if the intermediate price and intermediate output are calculated, they can still be more than 4,000 US dollars.

Xiao Yifei remembers that Shirley said that his father planted almonds, and the maximum profit of almonds was only more than 4,000 yuan. Based on the intermediate price and intermediate output, it was only more than 1,000 US dollars per acre. Why didn’t their family change to plant walnuts?

Xiao Yifei took a look at the North Coast Agricultural Zone where Napa was located and found that if pure planting is mentioned, the price of olive oil seems to be good. One acre can make a profit of 10,000 or 20,000 yuan, but how can the best olives in the Central Valley be only more than 2,000 US dollars? Since the profit difference is so big, why are there still people growing here? Why not go to Mendocino County to plant?

Xiao Yifei was a little confused when he read these materials. He decided to study these materials slowly when he had time.

You can get to the airport by just getting on the expressway from Davis, but Xiao Yi has been to California for so long and hasn't been to the capital yet. Now he is so close, he can't pass by the door and stay in. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!